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Nov 5, 2007 12:50 pm US/Eastern

Court: No New Trial For Washington-Area Sniper

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ― Maryland's Court of Special Appeals has rejected convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad's request for a new trial in the random killings of six people in Maryland in 2002.
 
The court's decision was unanimous, and the court compared Muhammad to Jack The Ripper because he terrorized the area five years ago.
  
In making the request for a new trial, Muhammad claimed he was wrongly allowed to represent himself at his trial and was wrongly deemed mentally fit to stand trial. The appellate judges rejected those claims.
  
Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were convicted on six counts of first-degree murder in Montgomery County. They are in prison in Virginia, where Muhammad was sentenced to death, and Malvo to life without parole.

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